Azure

FedEx signals 'zero mainframe, zero datacenter' operations by 2024

Going completely cloud-native will save it $400m a year, CIO estimates

On-Prem05 Jul 2022 | 35

Supply chain blamed amid claims of Azure capacity issues

Microsoft says it'll move to 'restrict trials and internal workloads to prioritize growth of existing customers'

PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2022 | 37

FabricScape: Microsoft warns of vuln in Service Fabric

Not trying to spin this as a Linux security hole, surely?

Devops29 Jun 2022 | 12

Microsoft updates Azure Form Recognizer: Invoices go multi-language

Power Apps Express Design doesn't get to have all the AI fun

Applications07 Jun 2022 | 1

Scribble to app: Microsoft's Power Apps VP talks us through 'Express design'

Interview Recognizing your doodles and building some software – or that's the idea

Applications01 Jun 2022 | 10

Azure Active Directory logs are lagging, alerts may be wrong or missing

Updated We have questions: Who's logged in lately? How would you know? Ain't it grand that Microsoft wants you in Azure AD?

Off-Prem01 Jun 2022 | 25

Microsoft Azure to spin up AMD MI200 GPU clusters for 'large scale' AI training

Microsoft Build Windows giant carries a PyTorch for chip designer and its rival Nvidia

AI + ML26 May 2022 |

Despite 'key' partnership with AWS, Meta taps up Microsoft Azure for AI work

Someone got Zuck'd

PaaS + IaaS25 May 2022 | 4

Microsoft-backed robovans to deliver grub in London

British startup Wayve gets supercomputing leg up

AI + ML19 May 2022 | 26

Alibaba Cloud adds third datacenter in Germany

More Euro-presence than any other Chinese company, but still nowhere near Google or AWS

PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 1

Arm, Microsoft at pains to say this CPU arch can be trusted with real server work

It should just run like x86, pair basically stress

Virtualization17 May 2022 | 11

OVH: The cloud should be open, reversible, interoperable

Interview CEO Michel Paulin on coming back from a datacenter blaze and playing nicely with others

PaaS + IaaS10 May 2022 | 11

Was Nokia's Microsoft switch deal win a reward for SONiC contributions?

Supply-chain constraints and code for network OS played a role, analyst tells El Reg

Networks06 May 2022 | 5

Microsoft to nudge more users toward Azure Active Directory

Love your Windows Update Compliance reports? Best learn to love Azure AD as well

Off-Prem05 May 2022 | 2

Microsoft to ax Azure Video Analyzer in November

Deprecation less than a year after announcement, users have until December 1 to move workloads

AI + ML03 May 2022 | 6

Cloud a three-player market dominated by AWS, Google, Microsoft

Big three’s market share now at 65 percent almost everywhere outside China

PaaS + IaaS02 May 2022 | 4

Q1 cloud growth lifts AWS, Azure, and Google

34% jump shows smaller businesses are catching on and driving investment, says Canalys

PaaS + IaaS29 Apr 2022 | 2

Microsoft fixes cross-account vulns in Azure Database for PostgreSQL service

Presented by the Wiz team that found the Cosmos DB flaw

Databases28 Apr 2022 | 2

$10b National Security Agency contract re-awarded to AWS

Microsoft won, Amazon complained. Amazon won, Microsoft complained. Amazon won... again

PaaS + IaaS28 Apr 2022 | 10

CAST AI puts out report on extent of enterprises cloud resource overspend

Tool relies on platform getting everything right in real time, cautions analyst

PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2022 | 3

Kraft Heinz signs up Microsoft to lift it into the cloud

Azure trusted with food giant's sauce code

PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2022 | 7

Microsoft inks satellite deal to push edge computing, software in orbit

Pop quiz: you've got your own edge computer in space. What do you do with it?

Edge + IoT06 Apr 2022 | 1

Microsoft, HPE put AI to work checking astronaut gloves

Video I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid you can't go out dressed like that

AI + ML05 Apr 2022 | 1

European antitrust watchdogs sniff around Microsoft cloud licensing deals

Reportedly has already sent a Q&A to Microsoft cloud rivals, customers

PaaS + IaaS04 Apr 2022 | 2

Microsoft reveals revamped Azure CDN – in two editions

Users of Redmond's two older cloudy CDNs told that the only route to future upgrades is migration

Off-Prem30 Mar 2022 | 2

Microsoft targets multicloud with Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI

Aims for consistent management across public and private clouds

PaaS + IaaS29 Mar 2022 | 1

Microsoft's New Commerce Experience: Cloud resellers concerned

Who benefits from changes to the Partner Network? Well, it's not partners... or even their customers

PaaS + IaaS17 Mar 2022 | 11

Microsoft introduces pay-as-you-go tier for Power Apps

The plan? Pay for low code and Azure services subscription in one shot. The price? Double pre-paid plans

SaaS10 Mar 2022 | 5

Azure pulls in front of AWS in public cloud adoption

It's close as Microsoft finds favor with surveyed enterprise IT pros

Off-Prem09 Mar 2022 | 13

£5bn up for grabs in UK govt G-Cloud 13 framework

Latest iteration of procurement in model dating back to 2011, how has that cloud first policy gone?

Off-Prem09 Mar 2022 | 3

If you're a founder and hungry for cloud credits, Microsoft has a hub for you

Step right this way, budding Azure addicts – er, sorry, entrepreneurs

PaaS + IaaS09 Mar 2022 | 2

Azure flaw allowed users to control others' accounts

AutoWarp security hole wasn't exploited – though researchers saw a way into a bank and a telco

Security08 Mar 2022 | 7

Microsoft says hello again to China, goodbye to Russia

Middle Kingdom gets another Azure region, Putin gets the middle finger

PaaS + IaaS04 Mar 2022 | 30

Microsoft updates Azure for Operators, adds private 5G

Azure Operator Distributed Services designed to let telcos run workloads on a single carrier-grade hybrid platform

PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2022 |

IBM Consulting assimilates cloud firm for Azure expertise

Big Blue continues to bulk out its hybrid multicloud services

SaaS16 Feb 2022 | 11

Users report trouble with Azure DevOps services

Updated Thanks Microsoft! Engineers in Europe get to finish early today

Devops15 Feb 2022 | 6

Singapore signs for Azure-hued sovereign cloud from Microsoft

Neither party is willing to talk about the operating model

Off-Prem11 Feb 2022 | 16

Microsoft adds Azure AD Join to Windows 365 Cloud PC

Pick a language, any language (from a list of 38)

Off-Prem10 Feb 2022 | 5

Azure Site Recovery points now live for 15 days in case undetonated ransomware lurks

Memories are made of this

Off-Prem08 Feb 2022 | 3

Not Azure thing: Using MS's Quantum to schedule chats with spacecraft on the DSN

Oh boy

Networks28 Jan 2022 | 7

January edition of Azure Sphere OS cancelled after Microsoft actually listens to customer's complaint

Wait – is this the same company that gave us Windows?

Edge + IoT27 Jan 2022 | 6

How to polish the bottom line? Microsoft makes it really hard to claim expenses, say staffers

If even Captain PowerShell can't automate this, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Bootnotes26 Jan 2022 | 66

Microsoft revenue up by a fifth as world shuffles through the pandemic into the metaverse

Cloud the top earner as usual but Redmond is doubling down on gaming

Software26 Jan 2022 | 8

UKCloud acquired: Public sector specialist finally bags investment from current chair and private equity after reporting steep losses

Updated Wolves no longer at the door of struggling Brit cloud slinger

PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2022 | 21

UK regulators to scrutinise cloud resilience in response to financial services sector's reliance on the fluffy stuff

Bank of England watchdog seeks 'more oversight' into 'critical third parties', eyes up outages and cyber attacks

PaaS + IaaS11 Jan 2022 | 17

Microsoft pushes ahead adapting Azure for 5G telecoms after swallowing AT&T's Network Cloud

Analysis But is the telco backing itself into a corner?

Networks05 Jan 2022 | 3

Four years: That's how long Azure's App Service had a source code leak bug

Firm that found the flaw also spotted ChaosDB and OMIGOD, confident this one’s been exploited

Security24 Dec 2021 | 7

British watchdog begins probing Microsoft's acquisition of AI speech specialist Nuance

You have until 10 January to make your feelings felt

AI + ML13 Dec 2021 | 3

Alibaba the biggest, but more clouds on China's horizon

Huawei, Tencent, and Baidu all growing fast, and Americlouds are about to expand

PaaS + IaaS09 Dec 2021 |

Microsoft extends Secured-core concept to servers

Certifies hardware with malware-crimping spec, already common in PCs, for Azure Stack and Windows Server

Security08 Dec 2021 | 6

Microsoft extends 'outage mode' for Azure Active Directory to bake more resilience into cloudy services

But Redmond has bigger questions to answer regarding Azure architecture

PaaS + IaaS24 Nov 2021 | 13

Patching Windows Server without needing to reboot is a handy feature – but it's only available on Azure

Trampolines and Retpoline: Applying patches at the function level

OSes23 Nov 2021 | 15

Microsoft previews Azure App Service Automatic Scaling, for when defining your own rules is too much like hard work

What could possibly go wrong?

PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2021 | 5

Unit4 releases connector mesh as it sinks deeper into Microsoft's 'grizzly bear' hug

Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees

Databases17 Nov 2021 | 2

ChaosDB: Infosec bods could pull anyone's plaintext Azure Cosmos DB keys at will from Microsoft admin tools

Black Hat Europe And they had a wildcard cert too. Still feeling secure?

Security12 Nov 2021 | 11

Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI – for those who want cloudy remote desktops hosted on-prem

Ignite We drill into what's available in this public preview

PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2021 |